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History Quotes by Adrienne Rich
- I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that…
- False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
- Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for…
- That's why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to…
- I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which 'sexism' is too facile a term. It…
- I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that…
- .Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women…
More History Quotes
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. — Julian Assange
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough